Composition

Fighting Peacocks, Glasgow University Library

Harmony in Blue and Gold: The Peacock Room, south wall, Freer Gallery of Art

This is a study for, or sketch of, the panel of fighting Peacocks in Harmony in Blue and Gold: The Peacock Room [YMSM 178].

Technique

A very rough sketch indeed.

Conservation History

The sheet was folded in four, and extensive tears have been repaired, not without some damage to the right hand peacock, which lost some of its leg. The paper has a vertical grain, and is discoloured.